Recollections of a HousekeeperApplewood Books, 2008 - 160 páginas Catherine Gilman's 1834 work provides a picture of domestic life and manners in New England. Claiming to take as her source the mingled results of observation and experience, Gilman's work provides insight into the life of a homemaker in nineteenth-century New England and is the precursor to her later Recollections of a Southern Matron. Taken as a pair, the two works provide insight into the regional differences in domestic economy between the North and the South in antebellum America. |
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... sweet music to lead thee , and a partner as kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in ...
... sweet music to lead thee , and a partner as kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in ...
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... tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- sistible A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
... tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- sistible A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
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... sweet voice in an evening hymn . Gradually , however , from five or six verses she diminished to one , until at last no music was heard ; but a hoarse , deep cough broke in even on my mid- night slumbers . Still she moved on in her ...
... sweet voice in an evening hymn . Gradually , however , from five or six verses she diminished to one , until at last no music was heard ; but a hoarse , deep cough broke in even on my mid- night slumbers . Still she moved on in her ...
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... sweet and happy strains , in which I soon loved to join . Time wore away , and she revived a little with reviving spring . She still had strength to carry her plants from window to window to catch the sunbeams , and could sit to watch ...
... sweet and happy strains , in which I soon loved to join . Time wore away , and she revived a little with reviving spring . She still had strength to carry her plants from window to window to catch the sunbeams , and could sit to watch ...
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... sweet to think that I shall repose among those objects which God has given me sensibility to enjoy . " She was carried to her favourite resting - place . From that period a religious repose chastened the intense tenderness of our hearts ...
... sweet to think that I shall repose among those objects which God has given me sensibility to enjoy . " She was carried to her favourite resting - place . From that period a religious repose chastened the intense tenderness of our hearts ...
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